{"product_id":"fathers-and-crows-isbn-9780140167177","title":"Fathers and Crows","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe story of the wars of belief between the French Jesuits and the Iroquois in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Canada – from the author of \u003ci\u003eEurope Central\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the same panoramic vision and mythic sensibility he brought to \u003ci\u003eThe Ice-Shirt\u003c\/i\u003e, William T. Vollmann continues his hugely original fictional history of the clash of Indians and Europeans in the New World. It is 400 years ago, and the Black Gowns, French Jesuit priests, are beginning their descent into the forests of Canada, eagerly seeking to convert the Huron--and courting martyrdom at the hands of the rival Iroquois. Through the eyes of these vastly different peoples--particularly through those of the grimly pious Father Jean de Brebeuf and the Indian prophetess Born Underwater--Vollmann reconstructs America's past as tragedy, nightmare, and bloody spectacle. In the process, he does nothing less than reinvent the American novel as well.William T. Vollmann is the author of ten novels, including \u003ci\u003eEurope Central\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award.  He has also written four collections of stories, including \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAtlas\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction, a memoir, and six works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eRising Up and Rising Down\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImperial\u003c\/i\u003e, both of which were finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  His journalism and fiction have been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarpers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299957362917,"sku":"NP9780140167177","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140167177.jpg?v=1767726772","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fathers-and-crows-isbn-9780140167177","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}